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SHWP—Seismic Hazards Working Party

SI—International System of Units (Systeme International

d’Unites)

SI—Saturation Index

SI—Statutory Instruments (UK)

SIC—Standard Industrial Classification (U.S.)

SIL—Safety Integrity Level

SIM—Selective Ion Monitoring

SIMS—Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry

SIP—Site Implementation Plan (U.S.)

SIP—Sterilization in Place

SIPI—Scientists’ Institute for Public Information

SIS—Susceptible-Infected-Susceptible

SKAPP—Scientific Knowledge and Public Policy

SKI—Radiation Protection Institute (Sweden)

SL—Surface Layer

SLAMM—Source Loading and Management Model

SLAPP—Strategic Lawsuit against Public Participation

(Canada)

SLM—Supported Liquid Membrane

SMB—Simulated Moving Bed

SMCL—Secondary Maximum Contaminant Level

SMCRA—Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act

(U.S.)

SME—Solar Mesospheric Explorer

SMP—Soluble Microbial Product

SMPS—Scanning Mobility Particle Sizer

SMR—Standardized Mortality Ratio (Rate)

SMZ—Surface Modified Zeolite

SNAP—Significant New Alternatives Policy

SNARL—EPA Suggested No Adverse Response Level

(U.S.)

SNCR—Selective Noncatalytic Reduction

SNL—Sandia National Laboratory (U.S.)

SNL—Scottish Nuclear Ltd

SNL—Sense Noise Level

SOA—Secondary Organic Aerosols

SOC—Soluble Organic Compound (Chemical)

SOC—Synthetic Organic Chemical

SOCMI—Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturing

Industry

SOD—Sediment Oxygen Demand

SOFC—Solid Oxide Fuel Cell

SOI—Southern Oscillation Index

SoPHE—Society of Public Health Engineers

SOx—Sulfur Oxides

SPCC—Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasures

SPE—Solid Phase Extraction

SPE—Survivor Population Effect

SPFC—Solid Polymer Fuel Cell

SPI—Society of the Plastics Industry

SPM—Scanning Probe Microscopy

SPME—Solid-Phase Microextraction

SPOT—Systeme Pour l’Observation de La Terre (France)

SPSS—Sulfur Polymer Stabilization and Solidification

SRC—Science Research Council (UK)

SRF—State Revolving Fund (U.S.)

SR&O—Statutory Regulations and Orders (UK)

SRT—Solids Retention Time

S/S—Solidification/Stabilization

SS—Suspended Solids

SSA—Specific Surface Area

SSBY—Sewage Solids By-Product

SSD—Safe Separation Distance

SSHRC—Social Sciences and Humanities Research

Council (Canada)

SSI—Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (Sweden)

SSIT—Society on Social Implications of Technology

SSOW—Source Separated Organic Waste

SSSI—Site of Special Scientific Interest (UK)

SST—Sea-Surface Temperature

SST—Supersonic Transport

SSTL—Site Specific Target Levels

STAPPA—State and Territorial Air Pollution Program

Administrators (U.S.)

STEL—Short Term Exposure Limit

STEM—Standard Transmission Electron Microscope

STEP—Septic Tank Effluent Pump

STEP—Standard for Exchange of Production

STM—Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

STORM—Storage Treatment Overflow and Runoff Model

STP—Standard Temperature and Pressure

STS—Supercooled Ternary Solution

SU—Standard Unit

SUVA—Specific Ultraviolet Absorbance

Sv—Sievert

SVE—Soil Vapor Extraction

SVI—Sludge Volume Index

SVIN—Swiss Association of Women Engineers

SVOC—Semivolatile Organic Compound

SVR—Sludge Volume Ratio

SWAMP—Storm Water Assessment, Monitoring and

Per formance Program (Canada)

SWDA—Solid Waste Disposal Act (U.S.)

SWE—Society of Women Engineers (U.S.)

SWH—Solar Water Heater

SWJ—Sewage Works Journal

SWMM—Stormwater Management Model

TA—Total Alkalinity

TAC—Total Annual Cost

TADC—Tire-Derived Activated Carbon

TAEE—Tert-Amyl Ethyl Ether

TAME—Tert-Amyl Methyl Ether

TAO—Tropical Atmosphere Ocean

TAPPI—Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper

Industry

TAW—Technical Advisory Committee on Water Defenses

(Holland)

TB—Tracheobronchial

TBT—Tributyltin

TC—Total Coliforms

TCA—Trichloroethane

TCDD—2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-Dioxin

TCDF—Tetrachlorodibenzofuran

TCE—Trichloroethylene

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